Violence against emergency room physicians is on the rise, survey finds
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Two-thirds of physicians working in emergency departments reported being assaulted in the past year alone, according to a survey.
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Take charge of your professional development
Pro CRNA
SEPTEMBER 18, 2022
By Thomas Davis, DNAP, MAE, CRNA. A common theme of my leadership articles is emphasis on the importance of creating a preferred workplace. Both healthcare and business management literature reinforce the connection between employee engagement/productivity and working in a favored environment. Among the foundational elements of a great workplace is professional development where the employer actively seeks avenues for employees to gain new professional skills.
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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Vik Krishnan, General Manager of Intrado Digital Workflows. While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits.
10 Ways to Attract New Patients from Key Local Employers
Healthcare Success
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Help Providers Win New Patients from Large Local Businesses with These Tactics. Large or dominant employers in your local communities are excellent targets of opportunity for new patients and cases. Most healthcare providers have local businesses that are (or could be) a source of new business. Whether it’s a company that's conveniently located across the street, or a dominant employer in the community, your providers want their business—here’s how you can help them win it.
How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp
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HHS ‘roadmap’ aims to tackle nation’s mental health crisis
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.
ATA hosts series this week on the value of virtual care
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
The American Telemedicine Association has gathered a number of speakers to share their expertise on integrating virtual care into healthcare delivery. WHY IT MATTERS. ATA is taking the week to encourage telehealth solution providers, hospital systems and medical practices, patient advocacy leaders, policymakers and other stakeholders to examine hybrid care models that include in-person and virtual care.
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Health is Everywhere, and Telehealth Is Health – And It’s Personal
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
If health is nurtured and made where we live, work, play pray, learn, and shop, the healthcare should be everywhere. That’s the promise, increasingly a reality, of telehealth. We are in the middle of Telehealth Awareness Week , an advocacy program launched by the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) whose mission I share — that #TelehealthIsHealth.
Watchdog faults FDA for rushing COVID tests to market by easing emergency use rules
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.
Inside a new virtual-first, Epic-based, nationwide telehealth services company
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health systems now provide the majority of telehealth across the country. However, while health system physicians are going back to their office-based routine, patient demand in many cases has started to outstrip the health system supply. Some health systems have contracted with third-party telemedicine vendors that often require patients to go into a separate system that is not well-integrated with the health systems' other technologies.
Restricting Reproductive Rights During the War on Drugs: Intersectional Regimes of Surveillance and Criminalization That Harm Us All
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
By Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer J. Carroll, and Bayla Ostrach. Health law and policy in the United States are, in many senses, driven by a desire to control. When that control is enacted to impose anti-scientific but deeply moralized social norms, suffering always follows. Consider, for example, the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which ended a constitutionally recognized right to abortion.
5 Essentials for Healthcare CIOs: A Provider Data Management Checklist
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RAND Experts React to Putin's Latest Threatening Rhetoric
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
Vladimir Putin appeared to double-down on his country's war effort in Ukraine September 21st, calling up hundreds of thousands of new troops, threatening Ukraine and the West, vowing to use “all the means at our disposal,” and pointing out that he is not bluffing. Here's what a few RAND experts had to say.
Will the healthcare labor shortage fuel more consolidation?
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
J.P. Morgan’s head of healthcare corporate client banking lays out trends to consider as private equity firms snap up physician groups.
Avenues are expanding for healthcare access
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
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The Direct Link Between Value-Based Health Care, Digital Transformation and Social Determinants – Insights from Innovaccer and Morning Consult
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Only 4% of health care payments in the U.S. are pure fee-for-service (FFS) these days. “The end of pure FFS is near,” according to The State and Science of Value-Based Care , a report-out of survey research from Innovaccer and Morning Consult. Innovaccer, a health cloud/data analytics company, worked with Morning Consult to do deep-dive interviews with 75 senior health care executives; research was conducted in November and December 2021, so these perspectives represent those of heal
A Guide to Improved Sepsis Detection & Compliance: 6 Areas You Should Address
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HHS Releases First of Its Kind National Strategy on Family Caregiving
NASHP
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
HHS Releases First of Its Kind National Strategy on Family Caregiving The far-reaching report details 350 recommendations across 15 federal agencies and includes actions for state and local governments, employers, and community organizations. Washington, DC — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a broad national strategy that provides the roadmap needed for federal, state, and local governments, as well as businesses and communities, to better support family caregi
Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
The congressional report also found a majority of health systems surveyed had been affected by an extreme weather event.
Showcasing new tools for patient experience and population health
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
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Life expectancy in China surpasses the US
Healthcare ECONOMIST
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
Back in 1960, life expectancy in the US was 69.7 years as compared to 43.7 years. At the turn of the century, this gap had closed to 76.8 to 71.4 years. As of 2021, however, US life expectancy was 76.1 whereas life expectancy in China was 77.1, a full year ahead of the U.S. Part of the reason for China pulling ahead was a bigger decrease in life expectancy in the US during COVID-19 (falling from 78.8 in 2019 to 77.1 in 2021) whereas life expectancy actually increased in China (76.9 to 77.1).
The New Tech Experience: Innovation, Optimization, and Collaboration
Speaker: Paul Weald, Contact Center Innovator
Learn how to streamline productivity and efficiency across your organization with machine learning and artificial intelligence! No matter what industry you're in - healthcare, customer service, sales, and more - it’s easier than you think to reduce wait times, monitor sentiment, and provide enhanced self-service options for all of your users. This means that you can achieve a more consistent and engaging customer experience while reducing sources of friction.
Regime Change in Russia?
The Rand Blog
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
A careful strategy of strength and prudence has helped the West maintain security and manage relations with Moscow. The West may continue this course while upping the ante to help Ukraine defeat and expel Russian forces. In so doing, the West may also be advancing prospects for longer-term peace that might come only through liberalization in Russia.
Emotional exhaustion worse for healthcare workers in second year of pandemic, research finds
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Nurses reported feeling more emotionally exhausted during the pandemic, with physicians also noticing an increase. The report comes as some nurses fight for better working conditions.
To help reduce maternal mortality, everyone has a role to play
Healthcare It News
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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How ‘Workforce Sharing’ Could Help Fill Gaps In Home Care
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
In lieu of competing, home-based care providers may need to work together in order to keep up with the growing demand for services. Companies can do that by finding unique ways to deploy caregivers and leverage certain technologies to increase productivity. “We were challenged before the pandemic and we’ve certainly been challenged through the pandemic,” Home Helpers President and CEO Emma Dickison said last week at Home Health Care News’ FUTURE event.
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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
By Sharona Hoffman. During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months. Both of my parents died, my mother-in-law died, and my husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 55. As I went through all of this, I learned a great deal about getting older, getting sick, facing the end of life, and caregiving. As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging w
Texas Medical Association files another lawsuit over surprise billing ban
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
“We are, once again, asking for the law to be followed as Congress intended, and for the challenged provisions to be invalidated,” TMA’s president said.
Most Recent CMS, CDC and NHSN COVID-19 Nursing Home
Briggs Healthcare
SEPTEMBER 17, 2022
Mary Madison, RN, RAC-CT, CDP Clinical Consultant – Briggs Healthcare. CMS posted the latest nursing home data for the week ending September 4, 2022. Comparing the September 4 th data to the August 28 th data shows these changes: Resident primary vaccination completion rate increased 0.1% from previous week. Residents with booster doses increased 0.5% from previous week.
Home Health Providers Scramble To Offset Rising Costs, Potential Rate Cuts
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
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Strategies to Deal with Collaborative Healthcare Communication
Speaker: Dr. Ugo Uwaoma, MD, MBA
Due to the impact of COVID-19, integrating telehealth software into practices and organizations has become the new normal. In turn, this has increased the effectiveness of collaborative healthcare by strengthening communication amongst healthcare workers and helping combat the woes of burnout. Communication between patients and healthcare providers has also improved, allowing patients to reach their providers easily and decreasing turnaround time.
Synthetic Cannabinoids and the Lack of Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Carceral Settings
Bill Of Health
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
By Aaron Steinberg, Ada Lin, Alice Bukhman, LaToya Whiteside, and Elizabeth Matos. The inability of prisons and jails to address the drivers of and treat substance use disorders, especially during the pandemic, is leading to underexplored health ramifications for prisoners, and particularly for prisoners who identify as Black, Indigenous, or other people of color (BIPOC), who already had comparatively poorer health outcomes.
DOJ’s case against UnitedHealth’s Change buy was hampered by ‘serious flaws,’ judge finds
Health Care Dive
SEPTEMBER 22, 2022
The most serious flaws were failing to prove that UnitedHealth is likely to misuse Change Healthcare’s data to advantage the company, Judge Carl Nichols wrote.
AWS Distributes $14M to 90 Organizations Through Health Equity Initiative
HIT Consultant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
What You Should Know: – Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced that it has awarded $14 million in cloud services and technical expertise to help nearly 90 organizations around the world, ranging from startups and nonprofits to large enterprises, to address health equity challenges through the Health Equity Initiative. – AWS also introduced a new pillar of the program today to improve global equity in access to diagnostics.
Home-Based Care Agencies, HHS Agree: Family Caregivers Need More Support
Home Health Care
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced this week its first ever national strategy plan to support family caregivers. The comprehensive plan — officially called the 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers — lays out nearly 350 actions the federal government needs to take in order to make the lives of family caregivers easier as more adults choose to age at home.
Top 12 Telehealth KPIs Every Health Tech Leader Should Know
Speaker: Matt McBride, CEO and Co-Founder of Mend
Patient engagement happens before, during, and after interactions. Consumer research has found that in 2021, 64% of US households reported using Telehealth services. In addition 34% of patients would prefer Telehealth visits to in-office visits. Accessible patient engagement technology can help you improve your relationships with your patients while also improving your KPIs.
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